David Attenborough Quotes

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

David Attenborough

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Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.

Jim Crace

ThinkImmigrationYouHarvestLand

I feel like racism isn't over.

Joel Embiid

RacismFeelOverI Feel LikeLike

As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

John Cho

GameThinkLongYouRentOut

My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.

Maxine Peake

WorkMyselfMeTroubleKindGet

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

GodPoliticsPeopleChurchWantWhy

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.

Matt Gallagher

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Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.

Michael Ian Black

GoodPhoneSeparationWayWorstTry

I'm ugly.

Amy Winehouse

Ugly

I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

Anand Giridharadas

PeopleCitizenshipBornSayAlways

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

Sloane Crosley

PeopleYouKnowUnderstandDecent

I'm not anti-immigration.

Mickey Kaus

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In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

Jardine Libaire

LoveMarriagePeopleFreeChoose

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